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While browsing the indiegamer forums i found a post about sfxr wich is a little tool that generates sound effects. You just select a category of sound effect like ‘laser’ or ‘powerup’ from the left hand side of the tool. Sfxr then generates a random sound effect of this type and let you play around with a lot of variations. After you’re finished you can save the resulting sound as .wav file.
I had a blast trying this tiny 48k! program, its so funny and you immediatly think you are sitting in front of your old tv-console. Download it here or browse over to the sfxr site.

Another mirror can be found here.

Ventilator has developed a new tool, with its help its now possible to use a second uv set for your 3dgs .mdl models. The background was to use realistic shadows on terrain. Imagine you made a nice level scene in blender and want to calculate the shadow there. Instead of backing it onto the model, wich is hard and ugly work, you just use 2 models now in conjunction with the plugin! One model holds the normal texture data and the other the shadow data.

The plugin combines both and the result could look something like that. Without nasty workarounds of cause:

It is really extremely useful, especially for terrain shadows wich were hard to produce in A6 till now…

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The latest Version of the free 3D modelling tool Blender has been released in version 2.44! The program is the biggest one available for free with the richest feature set. It even comes with .mdl export for 3DGS via plugin. You can grab it here!

The Release Notes consist of many new things in different areas such as:

-Subsurface Scattering (You can render surfaces wich dont reflext but consume light and scatter it such as skin, soap or milk.)
-Physics Engine
-New Phyton Scripts
-New Sculpt and Multires Functionality
-Many new smaller bugfixes and features
-Improvements in character animation

If you want to see what you can do with blender besides making 3d models for games, have a look at this short but sweet animation film.

Hey there, i just decided to compile a linklist for gamedev that helps the beginner, intermediate or even pro users to find helpful ressources for independent game development. I will always try to keep this list up to date and eliminate old/outdated links. Please dont worry, that i can not include all links, i want to keep it as clean and helpful as possible without too much confusing content.
It is not meant for the 3DGS A6/A7 user exclusively, but for everyone who wants to dive into game development and gather knowledge/tools. I also list freeware/cheap tools first, because those are meant for the indies. Note that all tools, links are tested and recommended by me and not just copied from somewhere. They are meant as a basic toolset or starting point, so you cant go wrong if you learn to use and master the things listed here!

You can find this link always under the “Freebies” Section and the sidebar, be shure to bookmark it and let me know if i missed/missspelled something, as this list will constantly grow. Thanks!

Remember: Not the tools make a great game, but the one(s) behind them!

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Begee wrote a nice Benchmark/Statistics tool and told us about in his corresponding thread.
With the tool, wich can be integrated in an existing 3DGS Project very easy, you can monitor the fps better and change relevant options at runtime to improve your performance.

You can download it here, dont forget to post suggestions for beegee and say thanks if you use the tool in his thread.

Geppert Software has released a free backup tool wich backups projects with just one click. The description on the homepage reads:

Fast and easy Databackup with help of the XCopy - Command and an easy intuitive Windows Interface; Files can be copied with lots of options.

The tool is still in a development status and freeware - use it at your own risk. If you have suggestions for it, just let the author know in the forum thread.

Download it here: http://www.firma-geppert.de/Download/xCopyDesigner.zip